"Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life."
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"When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote."
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"Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord."
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"So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find."
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"Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex."
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"Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent."
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"There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions."
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"Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future."
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"A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things."
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"This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel."
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"Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'"
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"Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force."
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"You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity."
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"But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while."
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"Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect."
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"Fear is the emotion that makes us blind."
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"If I hold you with my emotions, you'll become a wished-for companion."
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"Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now."
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"I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence."
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"Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion."
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